This volume brings an international perspective to language skills - an area of importance to both theorists and practitioners in all contexts of language teaching and learning. The twenty-seven chapters included here are arranged into six sections devoted to fundamental background issues, spoken interaction, perception of speech sounds and production skills, reading contexts and purposes, writing challenges for advanced learners, and technology and language skills. Explored themes range from the conceptualization of language as skill and the development of L2 skills in communicative and...
This volume brings an international perspective to language skills - an area of importance to both theorists and practitioners in all contexts of lang...
Halina Chodkiewicz Piotr Steinbrich Ma Gorzata Krzem
This book investigates the three pivotal points of text for foreign language acquisition: reception, construction and deconstruction. In Part One, the focus is on various aspects of text reception, such as developing literacy, text interest, and perceptions of the academic register or the assessment of spoken language in educational contexts. Part Two deals with various aspects of composing text, such as author identity, lexical constructs or collaborative web-based writing. Lastly, Part Three presents the various segmental items that constitute text, like lexical clustering, L1/L2...
This book investigates the three pivotal points of text for foreign language acquisition: reception, construction and deconstruction. In Part One, ...
